Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 36, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2006, 11:07 PM EDT for Charleston County, South Carolina. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2006, 11:07 PM EDT (03:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2006, 11:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Charleston County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 9:37 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 37 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 720 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 504 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 393 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 6.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KCHS 140307
TORCHS
SCC019-140330-
/O.NEW.KCHS.TO.W.0036.060614T0307Z-060614T0330Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1107 PM EDT TUE JUN 13 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CHARLESTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 1130 PM EDT
* AT 1104 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO ALONG A
LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES WEST OF ADAMS RUN TO EDISTO ISLAND...OR
ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WALTERBORO TO 24
MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHARLESTON...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
EDISTO ISLAND...
SEABROOK ISLAND AND ROCKVILLE...
YONGES ISLAND...
WADMALAW ISLAND AND RAVENEL...
TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU
SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE IN CHARLESTON TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024.
LAT...LON 3271 8043 3249 8035 3256 8015 3281 8010
3285 8039
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 10:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Beaufort | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 10:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Hampton | 26 min |
| Jun 13, 10:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Colleton | 51 min |
| Jun 13, 11:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester | 62 min |
| Jun 14, 12:05 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 55 min |
| Jun 14, 12:58 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 62 min |
| Jun 14, 5:16 AM EDT | Lake Wind Advisory | CHS | Berkeley | 11 hr |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.